A successful operation
The mummy of an Egyptain woman who died in 800 B.C has just had an operatain.The mummy is that of Sephenmut who was one singer in the Temple of Thebes.As there were strange marks on the X-ray plates taken of the mummy,doctors have been trying to find out whether the woman died of a rare disease.The only way to do this was to operate.The operation,which lasted for over four hours,proved to be very difficult because of the hard resin covered the skin.The doctors removed section of the mummy and sent it to a laboratory.They also found something which the X-ray plates did not show:a wax figure of the god of Duamutef.This god which has head of a cow was normally placed inside a mummy.The doctor have not yet decided how the woman died.They fared that the mummy would fall to pieces when they cut it open,but fortunately this has not happen.The mummy successfully survived the operation.